1. I want you to use twitter to do a search for something that interests you as an educator. You can use www.search.twitter.com like we did in class to add a keyword (remember I did cyberbullying) and then look through a few of the links you find that people are tweeting about.
2. Go you your Diigo account (or use your diigo toolbar in Firefox if you did that when you went home or back to work) and add one link to your account that you found that you think was a good link for other educators. Please use OCDE as one of your tags.
3. If you joined the OCDE group, share it to the group as well. If you didn't, then don't worry about this step
4. Direct Message me (teachtech) on Twitter with either the link to your Diigo account with the new bookmark, or with a link to that bookmark. If I have not followed you back yet on Twitter, email me your username. I sometimes get 20 followers in a day, and don't always have time to follow a lot of folks back. If you can't DM me because I'm not following you yet, you can start a twitter message with @teachtech and it will go to me. Also, if you need to shrink the address of the link you want to send me, you can either do it by downloading www.tweetdeck.com like I showed in class, or you can go to www.tinyurl.com and put your long url in, and it will give you a custom url to paste into your tweet.
I know this looks like a lot, but it shouldn't take you too long if you remember your usernames and passwords. Searching and finding a good link may take 10-20 minutes. Opening your diigo account and scrolling down to "add a bookmark" and pasting your newly found webpage should only take a few minutes after logging in. Then head over to twitter, and either click on direct message and find me in the pull down window, or just type @teachtech here is a great link on ___ then paste in the link and hit send.
5. Lastly, I want you go to to www.ning.com and signup for an account. It will ask you to join a ning, and you don't need to do that yet, just sign up, and we will join and work in a ning on Friday night. I know there was some concern about people using their name or information for logging in to some of these sites. If privacy is a concern, you can go to www.gmail.com and get a new made up email that has nothing to do with you or your personal information. That can be used as a login email for anything we do. As an education professional, you will eventually want people on Twitter to know who you are so you can network with them, and the whole point of professional learning networks is to have a trusted network of people who you work with and collaborate with online, and they need to know who you are. But for the time being, if anyone is uncomfortable with using their personal info, do what we talked about in class and make up a name when it asks for your name.
2. Go you your Diigo account (or use your diigo toolbar in Firefox if you did that when you went home or back to work) and add one link to your account that you found that you think was a good link for other educators. Please use OCDE as one of your tags.
3. If you joined the OCDE group, share it to the group as well. If you didn't, then don't worry about this step
4. Direct Message me (teachtech) on Twitter with either the link to your Diigo account with the new bookmark, or with a link to that bookmark. If I have not followed you back yet on Twitter, email me your username. I sometimes get 20 followers in a day, and don't always have time to follow a lot of folks back. If you can't DM me because I'm not following you yet, you can start a twitter message with @teachtech and it will go to me. Also, if you need to shrink the address of the link you want to send me, you can either do it by downloading www.tweetdeck.com like I showed in class, or you can go to www.tinyurl.com and put your long url in, and it will give you a custom url to paste into your tweet.
I know this looks like a lot, but it shouldn't take you too long if you remember your usernames and passwords. Searching and finding a good link may take 10-20 minutes. Opening your diigo account and scrolling down to "add a bookmark" and pasting your newly found webpage should only take a few minutes after logging in. Then head over to twitter, and either click on direct message and find me in the pull down window, or just type @teachtech here is a great link on ___ then paste in the link and hit send.
5. Lastly, I want you go to to www.ning.com and signup for an account. It will ask you to join a ning, and you don't need to do that yet, just sign up, and we will join and work in a ning on Friday night. I know there was some concern about people using their name or information for logging in to some of these sites. If privacy is a concern, you can go to www.gmail.com and get a new made up email that has nothing to do with you or your personal information. That can be used as a login email for anything we do. As an education professional, you will eventually want people on Twitter to know who you are so you can network with them, and the whole point of professional learning networks is to have a trusted network of people who you work with and collaborate with online, and they need to know who you are. But for the time being, if anyone is uncomfortable with using their personal info, do what we talked about in class and make up a name when it asks for your name.